Թ News - Dept. of English /channels/news_feeds/all/term/english/rss en Congrats to Prof. Allan Hepburn on his new publications! /channels/channels/news/congrats-prof-allan-hepburn-his-new-publications-372665 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Distinguished James Թ Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature <strong><a href="/english/staff/william-allan-hepburn">Allan Hepburn</a></strong><strong> </strong>recently published <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/elizabeth-bowen-in-context/249237B03FF668D17A04D154C278EDFA"><em>Elizabeth Bowen in Context</em></a> (Cambridge University Press, 2026) and <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/product/citizenship-in-mid-century-british-literature-9780198987642?cc=ca&amp;lang=en&amp;#"><em>Citizenship in Mid-Century British Literature: War, Statehood, Ex</em></a></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/hepburn_books_2026.jpg?itok=j3rot4aO" width="160" height="110" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">22 </span><span class="month">April </span><span class="year">2026</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:25:55 +0000 webfull 217776 at /channels Meet the Թ Arts students behind the Montreal International Poetry Prize /channels/channels/news/meet-mcgill-arts-students-behind-montreal-international-poetry-prize-372635 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Curious about what goes on behind the scenes of an international poetry prize? The Faculty of Arts spoke to MA student Izzi Holmes and U3 Physics and English major Clara Costello about the important work they do for the Montreal International Poetry Prize and the positive impact it has on the Թ community, and on poets around the world.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/students_mipp.png?itok=JVATC38p" width="160" height="99" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">20 </span><span class="month">April </span><span class="year">2026</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:34:27 +0000 webfull 217742 at /channels Catherine Bradley in Թ News! /channels/channels/news/catherine-bradley-mcgill-news-371954 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/bradley_mcgillnews_feb2026.jpg?itok=2KvqdSDi" width="160" height="107" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">16 </span><span class="month">March </span><span class="year">2026</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:56:40 +0000 webfull 216861 at /channels Submissions for the 2026 competition are open! /channels/channels/news/submissions-2026-competition-are-open-371068 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The <strong>Montreal International Poetry Prize</strong> is committed to encouraging the creation of original works of poetry, to building international readerships, and to exploring the world’s Englishes.</p> <p>We award one prize of $20,000 CAD to a poet for a single poem of forty or fewer lines. A jury of internationally reputed poets and critics selects a shortlist of approximately sixty poems, from which a judge chooses one winner. The shortlist is published in <strong><em>The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology</em></strong>.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/mipp_poster_2026.jpg?itok=JtTlWNy6" width="160" height="208" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">4 </span><span class="month">February </span><span class="year">2026</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:58:08 +0000 webfull 215677 at /channels Professor Alexander Manshel has won the MELUS Book Award /channels/channels/news/professor-alexander-manshel-has-won-melus-book-award-370482 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Congratulations to Professor Manshel for winning the MELUS Book Award!</h2> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/manshel_writing_backwards.jpg?itok=JyhS0XPw" width="160" height="85" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">20 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2026</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:28:53 +0000 webfull 214989 at /channels Professor Erin Hurley receives SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant /channels/channels/news/professor-erin-hurley-receives-sshrc-partnership-engage-grant-370478 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Congratulations to Professor Erin Hurley for receiving a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant!</h2> <div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/hurley_headshot_2023.jpg?itok=pgqjbaXo" width="160" height="107" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">20 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2026</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:10:08 +0000 webfull 214985 at /channels Carmen Faye Mathes Has Been Awarded the 2025 Keats-Shelley Association Essay Prize /channels/channels/news/carmen-faye-mathes-has-been-awarded-2025-keats-shelley-association-essay-prize-370450 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Congratulations to Professor Carmen Faye Mathes!</h2> <p><a href="/english/staff/carmen-mathes">Professor Mathes</a> has been awared the 2025 Keats-Shelley Association Essay Prize for her essay “Apostrophe’s Occasions: Two Postures of Abolitionist Address.”</p> <p>The committee writes:</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/mathes_headshot_banner.jpg?itok=o9DYODHd" width="160" height="86" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">20 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2026</span></div></div></div></div></div> Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:44:54 +0000 webfull 214957 at /channels Ricardo Wilson is the 2025-26 Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence /channels/channels/news/ricardo-wilson-2025-26-mordecai-richler-writer-residence-369991 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The <strong>Department of English</strong> is delighted to announce Professor <strong>Ricardo Wilson </strong>as the 2025-2026 <strong>Mordecai Richler Writer-in-Residence</strong>.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/richler2026_rwilson_banner.jpg?itok=BxeJW69N" width="160" height="80" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">22 </span><span class="month">December </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:19:50 +0000 webfull 214450 at /channels Camille Owens Receives Honorable Mention for "Like Children" /channels/channels/news/camille-owens-receives-honorable-mention-children-369782 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Congratulations to Professor Camille Owens!</h2> <h3>Professor Owens received an honorable mention from the Modern Language Association of America for her book <a href="https://nyupress.org/9781479812929/like-children/"><em>Like Children: Black Prodigy and the Measure of the Human in America</em></a>.</h3> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/owens_faculty_spotlight.jpg?itok=85z5Zdr8" width="160" height="107" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">11 </span><span class="month">December </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:25:46 +0000 webfull 214209 at /channels Prof. Sandeep Banerjee on CBC Ideas /channels/channels/news/prof-sandeep-banerjee-cbc-ideas-369289 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Professor Sandeep Banerjee was a guest in the<strong> </strong>CBC Ideas episode "How this 19th-century Indian feminist flipped the colonial travelogue on its head."</h2> <h2 class="bl-tpl"><strong><a class="button--outline" href="https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-23-ideas/clip/16168730-pandita-ramabai-a-19th-century-indian-feminist-travelled-world">Listen to the episode</a></strong></h2> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/banerjee_headshot_low.jpg?itok=5qdIFiPM" width="160" height="160" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">24 </span><span class="month">November </span><span class="year">2025</span></div></div></div></div></div> Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:51:45 +0000 webfull 213639 at /channels